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		<title>Assessment Tales:  The Bluebooks That Stayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glesnerfinesb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year when we all have the grading of our last semester’s bluebooks well behind us and the last few students have come in to review their exams. So we have packed up the bluebooks to be archived and they are out of sight and out of mind. But wait! In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2470&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The High Cost of Legal Education&#8211;alternative educational models</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed entitled &#8220;First Thing We Do, Let&#8217;s Kill All the Law Schools,&#8221;  Their idea is to teach law in undergraduate school.  This is very much like the system in Mexico and many other countries. Interestingly, they suggest an apprenticeship to enhance the theoritical knowlege.  What do you think?   The link is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2493&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The True Function of Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character &#8211; that is the goal of true education.&#8221; &#8211; Martin Luther King Jr. Happy Martin Luther King Day! Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2477&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Requirements for Bar Exam Stress Clinical Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a press release issued on January 12th, 2012, the New York State Board of Law Examiners announced [T]he amendment of the Court’s educational requirements for U.S.-educated graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to sit for the New York State bar examination. After consulting with law school administrators and representatives of the State bar and reviewing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2461&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unaccredited Law School Sues ABA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article, Unaccredited Law School Sparks Debate With Lawsuit Against Bar Association by Katherine Mangan, comes to us from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The argument is that the ABA and accredited schools are using their market dominance to prevent new schools from gaining accreditation. Here is an excerpt: A Tennessee law school&#8217;s lawsuit against the American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2455&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Practice of Counseling Students out of Clinic make a Statement about the place of Clinical Education in the Academy?</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/12/31/does-the-practice-of-counseling-students-out-of-clinic-make-a-statement-about-the-place-of-clinical-education-in-the-academy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it does. In my experience, it is unusual for a professor or dean to encourage a student to forego taking or to drop a so-called stand up or doctrinal class, particularly if it&#8217;s required. The opposite situation prevails in clinics, which presently are rarely required; in these classes, the pressure to maintain in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2451&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Counsel or Not to Counsel Students OUT of Clinics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our quest to offer and provide as many students as possible the opportunity to participate in clinics while in law school, the notion that a clinical experience is not  appropriate for certain students is not likely to be a popular one. Nonetheless, I imagine I&#8217;m not the only clinical professor who has faced this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2448&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices Goes International</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/12/20/best-practices-goes-international/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Dinerstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is only a few days before Christmas&#8211;and, as I write this, the first night of Channukah&#8211;but my thoughts turn not  to the holidays but rather to Best Practices.  As David Segal continues to write his maddening articles in the NYT on legal education&#8211;the most recent, this past Sunday, on how ABA accreditation causes law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2445&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots in Legal Education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/12/15/connecting-the-dots-in-legal-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a new opinion on educating law students, this time from Stanley Fish from Yale.  His opinion focuses on the art of law and states that the study of legal scholarship in his course gives students an understanding of what is at stake in a legal proceeding, and provides a basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2437&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Law&#8217;s Curricular Reform: 3 Years In</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2011/12/08/harvard-laws-curricular-reform-3-years-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>howardekatz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was recently posted on PrawfsBlog by Glen Cohen. Several years ago, under the stewardship of then-dean Kagan and then-professor-now-dean Minow, Harvard Law School made a significant change to its first year curriculum. Different portions were phased in at different times, but this will be the third full year of it all being in place, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=2432&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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